Spider has been the name of a number of vessels of the British Royal Navy;
Spider (1782), formerly the privateer Victoire built at Dunkirk earlier that year, that the Royal Navy captured in 1782, took into service, and sold at Malta in 1806.Spider, formerly Vigilante, a brig-rigged sloop captured on 4 April 1806 by HMS Renomee, and that served in the Royal Navy for the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars.Spider, a six-gun schooner built at Chatham in 1835 to a design by Sir Robert Seppings, which served in South America before becoming an engine fitters' vessel at Plymouth in 1855. Dimensions: Length Overall: 80' 2" x Breadth: 23' 3" x Depth: 9' 10"Spider, a wooden gunboat built on the Tyne by T W Smith in 1856, which later served in South America and South Africa. Dimensions: Length Overall: 106' x Breadth: 22' x Depth: 8' Spider, a torpedo gunboat built at Devonport in 1887.HMS Spider, a coastal destroyer renamed "TB 5" in 1906.Spider, formerly Francisco Antonio Quarto, purchased at Gibraltar in 1941 and used as a degaussing vessel.
